Seaknight & M16, red : primary seaplanes

[zenrat]

Looks good.  Got me thinking about a single float version using a Duck hull.

[ericr]

great idea !
given your skill, it can only be tremendous !

[Snowtrooper]

I don't normally do WW2 types, but this deceptively natural-looking model got me thinking; a civilian model with the C/D Razorback fuse (more room, even if marginally, plus looks better and more "civilian") and N wings (longer span and integral fuel tanks for extra range), and if you dispense with the HUEG turbo you could fit passenger/cargo compartment in the rear fuse. Call her the "Thunderbus" 

[ericr]

thunderbus, good idea indeed !
some passenger planes in the 30s had the cockpit on top of the cabin

[ericr]

a lovely tiny I-16 in 1/144 from zvevda, with a central float from a 1/350 Loire 130 and side floats from a 1/350 SH-5



and, yes, catapults (from the Kingfisher 1/200 kit, thanks again Tophe  )

[Tophe]

and, yes, catapults (from the Kingfisher 1/200 kit, thanks again Tophe  )

Thanks for the good use you made of it!

[ericr]

 

[ericr]

hey, long time no see on this thread ... time to start back

here is a floatplanization of the Whiteknight 2, the shuttle being meant  for landing only (take off is done with the main carrier floatplane)

(1/144 Revell, with 1/72 Twin Otter floats, and on the shuttle the hulls of a 1/350 SH-5 and two 1/350 Loire 130)

[PR19_Kit]

LOVELY job, and so colourful too. 

[Tophe]

I love it! And not only because it is twin-fuselage/twin-boom...

[ericr]

thanks !

more landing-only floatplanes to come 

[Tophe]

Your word is mysterious:
- Why "landing only"? not "taking off"? how does that change the shape? We will see, I am both puzzled and interested...
- If I remember correctly, going back from sky to planet is not landing for seaplane but ditching (amérrir in French) or something similar, do you mean your next seaplane will be amphibious for both water and land?

[ericr]

Your word is mysterious:
- Why "landing only"? not "taking off"? how does that change the shape? We will see, I am both puzzled and interested...
- If I remember correctly, going back from sky to planet is not landing for seaplane but ditching (amérrir in French) or something similar, do you mean your next seaplane will be amphibious for both water and land?

I mean that when taking off, this shuttle is carried by the twin-plne : it needs its hull and floats only when it comes back.
And it will be a similar case for the next floatplaization to come 

[ericr]

oh, and so the hull came from a 1/350 SH-5, which I finished as a waterline flying boat :



(maybe a bit deep in water : overloaded?)

[TheChronicOne]

Very cool!! Long and slender looking, which is visually appealing if you ask me!